12-letter words starting with pri
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price freeze — temporary fixing of prices
- price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- priggishness — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- primary care — medical care by a physician, or other health-care professional, who is the patient's first contact with the health-care system and who may recommend a specialist if necessary.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- primary gain — the removal of emotional conflict or relief of anxiety that is the immediate benefit of a defense mechanism or neurotic symptom.
- primary root — the first root produced by a germinating seed, developing from the radicle of the embryo.
- primary type — a specimen used in the original description or illustration of a species.
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
- primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
- primigravida — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
- primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
- principality — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- print server — (printer) A server device that is set up on a network to route print requests and status information between computers and printers connected by a network. A typical print server routes print requests for multiple computers and printers on a network. For example, a networked workstation user submits a print command that includes a print file and information about the printer to be used, usually a nearby printer for convenience. The print server sends the print file to the requested printer. The printer spools the print file and provides job status. The print server relays the status of the printer back to the workstation and makes this status information available to other devices on the network.
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- printer port — (hardware, printer) A connector found on many microcomputers intended for attaching a printer. This may be a general-purpose input/output parallel port or may be a special Centronics interface. Most printers can also be connected to a serial port but that is unlikely to be described as a "printer port".
- printing ink — a type of ink that flows smoothly, dries quickly, and is of a consistency able to hold enough color to make printed matter legible: used to transfer the image on a press plate to the printing surface.
- prior to sth — If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
- prison fever — typhus.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
- private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
- privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- prize-giving — A prize-giving is a ceremony where prizes are awarded to people who have produced a very high standard of work.
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- prizewinning — having won, or worthy of, a prize
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